Catalan government planning response to trial verdicts
With the Spanish Supreme Court expected to deliver the verdicts in the Catalan Trial in late September or early October, the current Catalan coalition government...
Ada Colau
‘Top manta’ street vendors demand end of ‘racist police persecution’
The People’s Union of Barcelona Street Sellers has asked Barcelona City Council to put an end to ‘racist police persecution’ after the detention of one...
Barcelona City Council seeks inquiry into terrorist attacks
Barcelona City Council has voted in favour of a motion demanding that the Spanish Congress sets up a committee of inquiry into the August 2017...
Street sellers protest – and Barcelona launches ‘Buy Legal’ campaign
On Friday evening, hundreds of Barcelona’s illegal street sellers responded to the city council’s new crackdown on the practice known as ‘top manta‘ with a demonstration...
‘Top manta’ street sellers feel ‘betrayed’ by Barcelona mayor
Barcelona’s ‘top manta’ street sellers feel ‘betrayed’ by the city council, says one of their representatives, after the local authority launched special police patrols in...
Resignations intensify crisis in Ciudadanos (Cs) party
Despite a number of high profile resignations in recent days, Spain’s Ciudadanos (Cs) party insists it will not change direction, while its leader Albert Rivera...
Manuel Valls slams Ciudadanos party as ‘dangerous, wrong’
‘Dangerous, wrong’ and linked to ‘reactionary, anti-European’ parties. This is how Manuel Valls described the Ciudadanos (Cs) party on Wednesday, two days after the unionist political...
Ciudadanos (Cs) party cuts ties with Manuel Valls
The Ciudadanos (Cs) party has cut ties with Manuel Valls, the former French prime minister who ran in the Barcelona local election supported by the...
Ada Colau renews her post as Mayor of Barcelona
Ada Colau of Barcelona En Comú has been reinstated as Mayor of Barcelona, despite her narrow electoral loss against the Esquerra Republicana (ERC) party’s Ernest Maragall, thanks...
Ada Colau close to retaining post as Barcelona Mayor
The acting Barcelona Mayor, Ada Colau, could now retain the post despite coming second in the 26 May local elections, behind Ernest Maragall the candidate heading...
